Word: tipoffs
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...country mansion to suit the tastes of his employer, an anonymous Paris industrialist. Through a Paris real estate office, he finally negotiated the purchase of a stately, green-shuttered pink villa. Price for the estate, which sprawls near the Aga Khan's Cannes hideaway: $90,000. The tipoff that the new owner was no ordinary industrialist came last November, when the locals learned that he had ordered a new lodge built on the grounds especially to house his platoon of bodyguards. Last week the mysterious Parisian's neighbors learned his identity: ailing Maurice Thorez, France's high...
...cozy luncheon at New York's executive mansion in Albany was the roundabout tipoff that Governor Thomas E. Dewey had formally conceded the defeat of his hand-picked successor, New York's Republican Senator Irving S. Ives, in last month's election. Mrs. Frances Dewey played gracious hostess to Mrs. Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, second wife of the state's Democratic Governor-elect, Railroadynast W. (for William) Averell Harriman.*A sometime interior decora tor, Marie inspected the official silver service, then looked over the mansion with a practiced eye. She allowed that "it doesn...
...little slip of paper. Sample: "I should like to express my hope that the American press, radio and other organizations will support the efforts of all honest men in their struggle for peace, international security and friendship." Growled the New York Daily News: "When Vishy smiles, watch out . . . A tipoff that [he] will be meaner, more dishonest and fouler-mouthed than ever before...
...this, Bart begins to slip His heart attack is the tipoff to the people who have been wondering how long he can keep up his pace. The studio hires stand-ins to play Bart's fighting parts, and younger bruisers are secretly screen-tested to step into his shoes. The finality of his fix strikes him when he boards a train at Los Angeles and realizes that "not even a Brownie snapshot camera was in sight...
...Constellations put down on an icy runway at a little-used field outside Seoul. Only a bird colonel was on hand for the reception: G-2 had learned that 135 Communist agents had recently slipped into Seoul, feared that a reception by high brass might be a tipoff to Ike's arrival. Ike, bundled in an overcoat, climbed into a sedan and the convoy rolled quietly into Seoul through the windy, subfreezing (18°) night. When his car pulled up at Eighth Army headquarters, U.N. Commander Mark Clark and the Eighth Army's James Van Fleet stepped...